The Portland daily press., 1887-03-11
FOREIGN.
General Butler Speaks Plainly on
Irish Affairs.
What Ought to be Done for That
Oppressed Country.
Gladstone Announces He Will Lead
the Opposition to Coercion.
An Accident Caused by the New
Explosive, Meiinite.

| LONDON, March 10.-A sensation has been
caused by the publication Of Gen. Sir Red
| vers Buffers evidence before the Land Com
mission. 1t appears that Gen. Butler testi-
fed that what law there was in the counties
of Kerry, Clare and Cork was on the side Of
the rich, and he expressed the opinion that
1t would be a serious matter, with their
grievances unredressed, to attempt to sup
press by force the tenants right to openly
associate for the protection Of their interests.
The majority Of tenants, he said, struggled
to pay their rents, and, where they could,
did pay; but in a great many cases rents
were toe high and such as tenants could not
pay. He said there would never be peace In
Ireland until there had been established a
court having strong and coercive powers
over bad andlords and protective powers
The Pail Mall Gazette declares that the
facts attested by General Butler came like a
flash Of vivid lightning, revealing the naked
horrors Of organized injustice in Ireland. Ii
says: mo crime which mOonlighters or
dynamiters can commit will be comparable
to the criminality of giving another days
grace to the foul fabric Of legalized wrong
erected on Irish SOFIA fabric which the
Tories now seek to buttress by further mis-
Deeds"
Mr.. Gladstone has Informed his party that
he himself will lead the opposition to the
coercion bill in Parliament. The Liber-
ais will continue their efforts against the
bill until Easter maintaining In the mean
time an active agitation throughout the
country.
LONDON, March 1o.-Mr. Schadhorst was
presented last evening with purse Of Rl0.-
600 In recognition Of his services TO the Lib
eral party. Sir William Vernon Harcourt,
who made the presentation speech, in the
course of his remarks said that the "round
table" conference had shown that the sub
few In number and Of secondary import
ance.
BERLIN, March 10.-DeLesseps, In an in
teryiew. said that the French nation was
distinctly in favor Of peace, and that no in |
telligent Frenchman believes there will be |
war;
LONDON, March 1o-The Times, this
morning, published dispatch from Vienna, |
affirming that the alliance between Italy, |
Germany and Austria, has been renewed,
but for term Of three, instead Of five, years.
Earl Spencer, speaking at Cambridge last
night,ssaid that he regretted that the plan
Of campaign" had been adopted. 1t was a
dangerous movement but he thought 10
only fair to say that the government was in
great measure responsible for the adoption
OF the plan because 1t had refused to con-
slider Parnell's bill He denied that the
Irish leaders in Parliament had ever sane
toned the commission Of crimes, and said
that the government would never secure law
and order by repressiye measures.
PARIS, March 10.-An explosion Of NELL
mite. the new explosive, occurred today In an
arsenal at Belfast. Two men were killed |
and injured.
Christine Nilsson has been married to |
County Miranda, and it is reported that she |
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